Type of information: | Including: |
(1) Hazard information | Meteorology, oceanography, sediment transport, geology, and shallow geological or manmade hazards. |
(2) Water quality | Turbidity and total suspended solids from construction; impact from vessel discharges. |
(3) Biological resources | Characterization of the spatial and temporal distribution and abundance of biological species in the site area, such as benthic communities, marine mammals, sea turtles, coastal and marine birds, fish and shellfish, plankton, sea grasses, and other plant life. |
(4) Threatened or endangered species | As needed for ESA consultation. |
(5) Sensitive biological resources or habitats | Essential fish habitat, refuges, preserves, special management areas identified in coastal management programs, nearby marine protected areas, including State and Federal coastal and marine protected areas, as well as nearby national marine sanctuaries, and nearby marine national monuments, rookeries, hard bottom habitat, chemosynthetic communities, calving grounds, barrier islands, beaches, dunes, and wetlands. |
(6) Archaeological resources use, other historic property use, Indigenous traditional cultural use, or use pertaining to treaty and reserved rights with Native Americans or other Indigenous peoples | Required information to conduct review of the COP under the NHPA or other applicable laws or policies, including treaty and reserved rights with Native Americans or other Indigenous peoples. |
(7) Social and economic conditions | Employment, existing offshore and coastal infrastructure (including major sources of supplies, services, energy, and water), land use, subsistence resources and harvest practices, recreation, recreational and commercial fishing (including typical fishing seasons, location, and type), minority and lower income groups, coastal zone management programs, and a visual impact assessment. |
(8) Coastal and marine uses | Military activities, vessel traffic, fisheries, and exploration and development of other natural resources. This includes a navigational safety risk assessment that provides a description of the predicted impacts of the project to navigation, and the measures you will use to avoid or minimize adverse impacts. This document must also be submitted to the U.S. Coast Guard to assist with its analysis if your proposal identifies potential impediments to safe navigation. |
(9) Consistency Certification | If required by CZMA, under: (i) 15 CFR part 930, subpart D, if the SAP is submitted before lease issuance; (ii) 15 CFR part 930, subpart E, if the SAP is submitted after lease issuance. |
(10) Other resources, conditions, and activities | As identified by BOEM. |
30 C.F.R. §585.611